Facebook's Meta Pulls Support From Taiwan Fact-Checkers

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Meta, the U.S. tech company that owns Facebook, has ended funding for third-party fact-checking groups worldwide, a move that has dealt a major blow to Taiwan’s fact-checkers. Local organizations say the loss of support comes at a critical time as the country faces growing information warfare from China.

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00:00Fact-checking groups in Taiwan say they've lost funding from U.S. tech giant MEDA, which recently changed its fact-checking policies.

00:08MEDA CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in January that Facebook would end its policy of using third-party fact-checkers in favor of so-called community notes.

00:36This relies on users to provide additional context to posts containing questionable or disputed information.

00:44One long-running study called The Varieties of Democracy found that Taiwan has been the country most impacted by disinformation for several years in a row.

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